This photo was taken on one of our last adventures during the summer I lived in Washington with Mark. It was an interesting day. We took the ferry to Lopez Island. The bike shop picked us up at the ferry. We rented a couple of bikes for the day, aware of the time we needed to be back at the ferry for our ride home. Unfortunately, we read the ferry schedule wrong and no one realized that until we were stuck at the ferry dock for what would have been 4 hours.
So, we did something that I have never done before, we hitchhiked. There is not much car traffic on Lopez Island. All seemed futile until a couple of good samaritans picked us up and delivered us to the downtown area. We are talking a small downtown. One restaurant, one bakery and one gift shop. Not really bustling.
As they dropped us off at the restaurant, The Love Dog Cafe, one of the women kindly shared her cell phone number with us and told us to give her a call and she would drive us back to the ferry. So kind!
We sat down to dinner, or lunch, and thought, "what can we do to repay their kindness?" Across the street was a bakery. So Mark hightailed it out of the restaurant and across the street. Unfortunately, the bakery was closed. Mark sensed that there was someone inside so away he knocked. Relentlessly. Finally someone inside sensed his presence and let him know that they were closed. Mark explained our situation to the person behind the door and it convinced her to open the door. She graciouly offered Mark the opportunity to purchase some goodies for our kind samaritans.
Once we were done and it was getting close to the time for the ferry we gave our new friend a call. She arrived very quickly and had her husband, who grew up on the island, along for the ride. They gave us a little tour, some colorful history and showed us parts of the island that we hadn't explored. We arrived at the dock just in time to catch the ferry to San Juan Island.
It was a wonderful adventure and one that we couldn't have planned if we had wanted to!
